The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-24
A BOGUS BISHOP.

Our fair and always esteemed con-
temporary. the New York Times, has
again gone off wrong" in an editorial
on the exploded proposition that the
Mormons have their eyes on Nevada
with a view to its colonization and DO.
iitical capture. The Times, on this oc.
casion, however, ought not to be blamed
unless for permitting itself to be i'm
posed upon by fraud and humbug.
A few days ago the New York Herald
published a dispatch from st. Louis, re-
porting an alleged interview between
its correspondent and one "Joseph
Long, a bishop of the Mormon Church,
whose home is at Bear Lake; ]. T.
Bishop Long" is further described as
being somewhat of a statesman He
has served several terms in the Idaho
Legislature, has been sheriff of his
county, assessor of taxes and school
uperintendent. He is native of Eng
land, but has been in this country
twenty-five years."
This Bishop Long is questioned, and
in reply INDUCES in lot of talk, which.
in the inelegant but e1Gfssive phrase
ology of the ''rowdy west" may be
styled "hog-wash" or rot" He is re
ported as saying. concerning Nevada:
There are not more than 5000 voters in
the sovereign State of Nevada now, of whom
nearly 5000 are MormonS What is to pre-
vent the Mormons from dumping 5000 eiti-
zens into Nevada, and taking possession of
the government Of the State in q year?
Nothing. And, by the way, this thing is
just now seriously considered. If we had
three Electoral votes on the political mar
ket we might have friends, and plenty of
them in Washington. With two United
States Senators to fight our battles, and a
full-hedged Congressman in addition to our
Utah Delegate, we might get more respect
full hearing. Then, too, we might have in
fiuence enough to get Utah admitted, and
later Idaho. There is nothing to Prevent
the Mormons, If they take It in their heads
to engage in practical politics. from con-
trolling Nevada and Utah, and holding the
ba ance of power in Idaho and rizona
Having accepted this as truthful
utterance, the Times naturally con-
cludes that THE HERALD was not sin
cere in its denial, some weeks ago, that
the Mormons desired annexation to
Nevada. Nevertheless, THE HERALD
was not only sincere, but was abso-
lutely truthful in what it said then, all
of which it repeats now, and the Times
will be in better mood to accept the as
surance when it learns that it has been
imposed upon. If the alleged inter
view ever took place, it was not with
Mormon, and much less with Nor.
mon bishop. There is no Mormon
bishop in Bear Lake, Idaho, bearing the
name of Joseph Long, a list of the
bishops in that stake being now before
US; there is no Bishop Long in any
county of Idaho, and SO far as we have
been able to learn, there is no bishop
bearing the name of Joseph Long in the
Mormon Church; no one of that name
has gone to the Idaho Legislature from
Bear Lake, or has been sheriff of the
county, assessor, school superintend
ent, or anything else. In fact, Bishop
Long Is a myth, and if there were anv
such interview as the one reported, the
gentleman interviewed was not Nor
mon, and not even clever imperson-
ator OF Mormon; no Mormon could
be guilty of talking such nonsense as he
Is made to talk. If the Times had re-
nected a moment il would have dis
covered that the interview was bosus
Bishop Long, is credited with saving
there are 5000 voters in Nevada
whereas it would take considerable re-
pea.ing to poll IL, 600 votes in the State
Long says there are nearly 5000 Nor
mon voters in Nevada, when the fact is
there are not 500. All his other state
ments are equally wide of the truth.
The HERALD repeats, there has not
been time in fifteen years, WHOM the
Mormons could not have gained poIiti-